The mother-in-law of Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, Aparecida Schunck Flosi Palmeira was rescued on Sunday after being kidnapped from her Sao Paulo home 10 days ago.
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Brazilian police reported on the rescuing from the kidnappers a mother-in-law of Bernie Ecclestone.
“Two men were detained at the place where she was held captive in the city of Cotia” in the greater Sao Paulo area, it said.
Being a large Brazil city and the centre of commerce, São Paulo is suffering from kidnappers who demand a ransom for kidnapped people.
She said there had been a major police operation to free the victim and two suspects were arrested. Police in Brazil, however, have not commented on the story or confirmed the reports of the record-breaking ransom demand.
Kidnappings were common in Brazil and other Latin American countries in the early 2000s as criminal gangs used ransom payments to help finance their activities.
His fortune didn’t decrease by one bit after the kidnapping, despite Mrs. Schunck’s captors obviously targeting Bernie’s big bucks when they abducted her.
But a dedicated police task force has reduced the crime drastically over the past 15 years.
Mr Ecclestone, 85, married Ms Flosi, 38, in 2012, three years after meeting her at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
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The couple met in 2009 and Wednesday three years later after Ecclestone divorced his wife of 25 years Slavica Radic.
